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Odysseus spent ablout 10 years at the war with Troy
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Odysseus ran into some Circones. He lost some of his men.
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Odysseus saves his crew members from eating the lotus flower, which would make them forget about home.
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Odysseus runs into the Cyclops, Polyphemus, and he loses more men.
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King Aeolus give Odysseus a quest in trade for information.
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Odysseus runs into the Lastrygones Giants and loses yet more men.
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self explanatory.
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Odysseus meets Circe, the evil temptress who turned his remaining men into pigs. he then stays with her for a year to save his men.
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Odysseus travels to the Underworld to talk to the blind prophet. (I'm predicting it took him about a year to find it and then get out)
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Again, the tital explains it all.
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Odysseus finds himself running into many monsters lately, and so he loses more and more men.
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Odysseus and his remaining men find themselves at Helio's ranch (?) and so his dwindleing number of men start to eat away at Helio's sacred cattle and he gets so outraged that he disides to stop shineing the sun (he is the sun god after all) but Zues says, "No! You can't do that! I'll show those men what happens when they disobey the gods!" And so he struck the remaining men with his lightning bolts, leaving Odysseus alone.
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Odysseus is then shipped off to Calypso who keeps him for 7 more years.
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After 7 years, he finally escapes Calypso with the help of Hermes, and returns home to kill all of Penelopes suitors and whisk her away.